You Preside – Oct. 21, 2022
You preside over all our comings and goings, all our wealth and all our poverty, all our sickness and all our health, all our despair and all our hope, all our living and all our dying. And we are grateful. You are God of all of our impossibilities. You have presided over the emancipations and […]
Nothing is Impossible – Oct. 13, 2022
“It is certain that we may always live close to God in the light of God’s presence, and that such living is an entirely new life for us; that nothing is then impossible for us, because all things are possible with God.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. 391
Joy Unspeakable – Sept. 15, 2022
Joy Unspeakable erupts when you least expect it, when the burden is greatest, when the hope is gone after bullets fly. It rises on the crest of impossibility, it sways to the rhythm of steadfast hearts, and celebrates what we cannot see. -Barbara A. Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, p. 200
Impossible – May 24, 2021
“A genuine call for any individual or group is always going to be “impossible” because a genuine call is never something we are prepared to take on. It is never something that depends upon our strength and stability. Instead, it stretches us beyond our imaginations.” –Gordon Cosby, Seized by the Power of a Great Affection: […]
